[BGHater]

-Note- Correct title is:

Scientists believe 5,300-year-old mummified 'ice man' belonged to unknown branch of human family tree

I had to edit to fit into title header.

[BGHater]

Ping

Ice man in the news again.

[pabianice]

Let’s face it. Having a spear point embedded in your groin would stop most of us from, ah, “procreating”...

[conservative cat]

We are going to go see him in December!

[blam]

The Iceman was/is haplogroup 'K'...the same as Thomas Jefferson. (Who is K2)

Ancient DNA

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

whoops!

Ancient iceman probably has no modern relatives
Yahoo News | October, 30, 2008 | Reporting by Michael Kahn
Posted on 10/30/2008 2:49:25 PM PDT by MissCalico
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2120078/posts

[mass55th]

"Scientists believe 5,300-year-old mummified 'ice man' belonged to unknown branch of human family tree"

Oetzi's probably just another one of Obama's long-lost relatives.

[Varda]

Gee reporters are dolts aren’t they.

” mitochondrial DNA, which is always passed down to future generations by mothers”

Dear Reporter, This means that the Iceman’s mtDNA lineage is not extant, it doesn’t mean HE didn’t have descendants because the IceMAN was a MAN. He could’nt pass on mtDNA to his children, only the mother of his kids could.

[SunkenCiv]

This diagram works for most people, but not for folks with Down's Syndrome and a few other conditions. F is for father, M for mother; each of us has up to 64 great-great-great-great-grandcestors; no more than 46 of them has had even one chromosome pair reach you; even with the occasional crossing stream, there's no more than 46, and with crossing streams, could be less.

For those who don't know, this doesn't mean the other 18 (and all of their ancestors, plus half of the ancestors of the 46) are not your ancestors -- DUH! IOW, just because the chromosomes don't make it through, doesn't mean that Oetzi (for example) has no living descendants.

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